Does being in MCU films help one's career ?

Does being in MCU films help one's career ? Jun 19, 2021 21:35:31 GMT taylorfirst1 and ReyKahuka like this

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Post by Skaathar on Jun 19, 2021 21:35:31 GMT

Jun 19, 2021 20:43:31 GMT ReyKahuka said:

Jun 19, 2021 9:30:16 GMT Skaathar said:

Well it certainly helped the careers of the following:

RDJ
Chris Hemsworth
Chris Pratt
Tom Hiddleston
Scarjo

It certainly helped the nobodies become somebodies. I guess you could argue it helped RDJ in that it showed he can still do the job. But everything he's done outside of the MCU (other than Sherlock Holmes, another IP project and that was over a decade ago now) has been a failure. I don't think it did anything for Scarjo, she was already on an upward trajectory.

Prior to being cast as Tony Stark, RDJ's career was going down the drain and nobody wanted to hire him for decent projects anymore. So while his other movies outside Ironman weren't exactly hits, the fact that he still got hired as well as got paid pretty heftily is due to the MCU helping restore respect to his name.

As for Scarjo, she wasn't really a box office star before the MCU. She had a number of movies here and there but only The Island was a big enough movie. After getting cast in the MCU, blockbusters started to role in and she's now one of the highest paid female actors in the world. I don't think she would have managed that without the MCU.